page_title: Whitehawk Hill transmitting station
section_title: Digital television
hierarchical_section_title: Whitehawk Hill transmitting station / Services available / Digital television
caption_attribution_description: A view from the Palace Pier of the Whitehawk Hill Transmitting Station, Whitehawk Hill, City of Brighton and Hove, England. This is used for the transmission of various television and radio stations. There was a telegraph station at this very high point from the early 19th century. (The buildings in the foreground are 42 to 53 Marine Parade; the road with the blue building is Lower Rock Gardens; and the block of flats is Hereford Court.)
context_page_description: The Whitehawk Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located at Whitehawk, an eastern suburb of Brighton in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is the city's main transmission facility for television and radio signals. It broadcasts digital television, FM and DAB radio to the coastal city of Brighton and Hove and to surrounding areas along the Sussex coast. It stopped broadcasting analogue television when the digital switchover occurred locally in March 2012.
  Services broadcast include BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, BBC national radio stations, BBC Sussex and Heart Sussex.
context_section_description: The transmitting station provides Freeview television to 96,000 households. Since 28 August 2014, a local television station called Latest TV has been broadcast from LTVmux.
  Whitehawk Hill completed the 700MHz Clearance Programme in November 2019 and ceased transmitting on UHF 51, UHF 53, UHF 54, UHF 57 and UHF 60.
caption: The transmitting station (seen here from the Palace Pier) stands on high ground to the east of the city.
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